Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Like all rites of passage, the mid-life transition can be an uncomfortable time. You are in between two worlds – no longer the old self, not yet the new self. You may feel like you’re in limbo, having closed one door, still waiting for that other door to present itself. The not knowing or uncertainty can drive you crazy. What is the secret to finding balance? Listening in - the inner journey calls out for recognition. How can you get closer to what you love, to what you truly desire to manifest, to your “deep womansoul crying out for a life” to quote Janet Quinn (from I am A Woman finding my Voice).

The resources offered on this website are a way of promoting patience and trust with the process, a place to ask the questions, and listen to the whispers of your own heart, a place to be present and compassionate with yourself until clarity comes.  Journaling for me has been a kind of navigational system, helping me link up with the satellite of higher intelligence within, or inner guidance system as I call it. I am blogging, writing, teaching classes and leading retreats because I so need to learn and feel the value of "me" time, down time, slow sacred space time.

My journal has been a rich record of my yearnings, thoughts and passions, a silver mirror to see my deeper self in, as Marion Woodman calls it. My first book Little Mother grew out of it, including a birth journal I kept during both pregnancies. The workbook The Tao of Turning Fifty came out of my blog on menopause and journal, and is also based on interviews with women in their forties and fifties. I believe the journey of your life is worth recording in your words, your voice.

In my experience leading journaling classes, workshops for women (since 1999) and retreats, women need support and encouragement to help them trust their own voice. To help you get started, I offer an inspirational blog, a free newsletter and creative journaling classes and retreats held in the Montreal area.

This website also links to fantastic resources, articles, books, blogs of interest and resources for women in mid-life.

I hope to inspire you to reclaim your own wisdom.